What does rapid automatized naming measure? A new RAN task compared to naming and lexical decision

Brain and Language

Volumn 90, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 47-62

  Wile, Tammy L ^a   Borowsky, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developmental; Phonetic decoding; RAN; Reading; Sight vocabulary; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PHONETICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 2542483456     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00419-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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